Adult education research: exploring an increasingly fragmented map

Rubenson, Kjell; Elfert, Maren

doi:10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9066

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“…2 For other discussions on the status of adult learnig as a research field see e.g. Bright (1989), Larsson (2010); Rubenson and Elfert (2015), Fejes and Nylander (2017). 3 Thus, other newer journals such as, e.g.…”

Section: Method Data and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of these studies focus on a single journal only and its development over time (e.g. Harris and Morrison 2011;St.Clair 2011;Taylor 2001), while others focus on identifying issues of authorship and content across several journals (Fejes and Nylander 2014;Larsson 2009Larsson , 2010Rubenson and Elfert 2015) and yet some focus on conference publications (Käpplinger 2015). In short, these studies identify the following characteristics of adult learning as a research field: authors located at universities in the UK, US, Australia or Canada dominate the field in contribution as well as collegial impact; female authors render more publications than men do, while male authors still dominate the field in terms of scientific recognition and impact (Fejes and Nylander 2015;Taylor 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Methodologically, research tends to be conducted within the qualitative paradigm, with interviews, sometimes in combination with observations, as the main method of generating data (Fejes and Nylander 2015;Käpplinger 2015). Theoretically, sociocultural perspectives on learning dominate and topic-wise, adult learning has been found to be the most common thematic (Fejes and Nylander 2015;Rubenson and Elfert 2015).…”

Section: Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although we do not think that the total number of citations can be taken as a proxy for research quality, we believe that the bibliographic method we outline has a series of distinct advantages in comparison to conventional bibliometrics analysis (Hicks 2004(Hicks , 2013Persson 1991;Lariviére et al 2006) as well as previous bibliometrics studies on the field of adult learning (Fejes and Nylander 2015;Rubenson and Elfert 2015;Käpplinger 2015;Larsson 2010;Taylor 2001). Firstly, we are able to give a synthetic and panoramic view of the research field of adult learning based on previous citation patterns by utilizing the power of big data, spanning in total 151,261 citation links between more than 33,000 different authors.…”

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confidence: 97%

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Exploring the Adult Learning Research Field by Analysing Who Cites Whom

Nylander

Österlund

Fejes

2017

Vocations and Learning

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In this article we report on findings from a large-scale bibliographic study conducted based on the citation practices within the field of research on adult learning. Our data consist of 151,261 citation links between more than 33,000 different authors whose papers were published in five leading international journals in the field of adult learning during the time period 2006-2014. By analysing the composition of the dominating citation clusters we are able to construct a telescopic view of the research field based on an accumulation of bibliographic citations. The results consist of two parts. First we go through the dominating players active in the field, their position and mutual relationship. Secondly, we derive two main structural oppositions inherent in the citation networks, one connected to the research object (studying education or work) and the second to the level of analysis (cognition or policy). We find that the most dominating tradition within adult learning the last few decades -sociocultural perspectives on learning -occupies a very central position in the space of citations, balancing between these opposing poles. We hope that this analysis will help foster reflexivity concerning our own research practices, and will reveal the relations of dominance currently prevailing within the field of adult learning.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Previous Researchmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Exploring the Adult Learning Research Field by Analysing Who Cites Whom

Nylander

Österlund

Fejes

2017

Vocations and Learning

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“…O tom ostatně referují i četné studie (např. Fejes & Nylander, 2014Harris & Morrison, 2011;Rubenson & Elfert, 2015) z posledních let, které dokládají dominanci těchto dvou geografických (a také sociokulturních) oblastí v mezinárodním výzkumu vzdělávání dospělých. To je zvláště důle-žité, když zohledníme, že percepce bariér -jako u jakéhokoliv jiného sociál-ního jevu -je výsledkem specifických sociokulturních rámců ovlivňujících kognitivní percepci aktérů (viz Cerulo, 2002).…”

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